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ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards 2004/2005
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18, Santa Cruz, CA
Remy Le Boeuf has earned recognition, internationally and on the California Central Coast for both performance and composition. He was among the five jazz students chosen for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) Clifford Brown-Stan Getz Fellows, part of the 125 ARTS Week finalists chosen from among 6500 applicants. He was a member of the High School Grammy Ensemble and he has performed with a "who's who" of musicians, including Chick Corea, Chris Potter, John Benitez, The Heath Bros, Clark Terry, Gary Burton, The Clayton Bros, Jeff Hamilton, Ann Hampton Calloway, Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Regina Carter, Dave Koz, Eric Marienthal, Kurt Elling, David "Fat Head" Newman, and Jay McShann.
Remy was recognized in DownBeat Magazine student awards in 2003 and 2004 as winner and outstanding performer both individually and with his combo, Deuces Wild, for performance and for composition. In 2004 his combo won the Blues/Pop/Rock category and he and his brother, Pascal, were designated soloist co-winners. Remy and Pascal were among 22 winners nationally of ASCAP's 2003/2004 Young Jazz Composer Awards for musicians under 30 years old and they were the two selected to play original compositions on the bill with Marian McPartland at the awards ceremony at ASCAP in New York. Remy was a Jazz semi-finalist in the 2004 and 2005 International Songwriter's Competition. His quintet, playing his original compositions, won the 2004 Monterey Jazz Festival H.S. Combo competition where Remy received the Outstanding Horn Soloist award. Remy has been a member of the Kuumbwa Honor Band (4 years), the SFJAZZ Honor Band (3 Years) and the Monterey Jazz Festival All Stars (3 years) and has played at jazz festivals in Japan, New York, Ottawa and Montreal. At the Essentially Ellington Competition in New York in 2003 with SFJAZZ, he won an Outstanding Soloist award.
In January 2004 in New York at the 2004 International Association of Jazz Educators Conference Remy played in his brother's premiere of his Where There's Smoke, the ASCAP-IAJE Commission in Honor of Quincy Jones.. He has also played with the Clifford Brown Stan Getz Fellows and with his own Combo, Deuces Wild. Remy has also performed with his combos, Deuces Wild and the Le Boeuf Brothers Quintet at numerous California Central Coast venues, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco and Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz where their CD release party sold out.
Remy is currently a student in jazz performance and composition at Manhattan School of Music where he studies under the direction of Dick Oatts. A new CD, with music by he and Pascal, will be released in winter 2005.
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